The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-31

Inc potato crop Will be lair though NOT as
good as was expected early in the season.
Buyers are offering $1.25 per barrel, which is
about 70 cts better than they paid last year.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
Sheriff Smith has appointed Washington
| Philips ard 5. w. Syphers deputy sherlils
| for the enforcement of the liquor law. The
new officials have qualified and entered upon
| their duties.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Mr.. Lemuel Milliken, of Dunstan's Corner,
Scarb0rO, says that about three weeks ago a
deer paid him a visit. A neighbours girl
called to him that there was a strange animal
down by the gate with the cows. Going there
Mr.. Milliken found a large deer, which one
OF the cows was charging upon with her
horns. just then the deer made Ia leap
over a distance of ~ feet into Mr.. Milliken's
potato patch, bounded thence across the road
into neighbours lot and made for the woods
He says If the game law is well enforced deer
will soon be plenty throughout the State,
and they do no harm to crops, ETC., merely
browsing on forest saplings and such.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The circumstances attending the theft of a
large OK from the pasture of Daniel Vining
of Windsor last Friday evening were surprls-
ing. The OK was stolen in broad daylight
and led off by two men who were met in the
road with the animal by several residents OF
windsor. They stopped portion of day
and over night at Chelsea, turning the OK out
to pasture They continued on Damariscotta
way and neither hide nor hair of OK can be
found. The thieves also disappeared. Search
is being made in Kennebec towns for the
hide and reward of $50 has been offered for
the recovery OF the animal, if alive.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
A gentleman in Winterport is the owner of
atwo months old colt which is perfectly white
| and when born had red eyes, The animal is
very handsome one and colts Of that pure
color are rarely seen.
Thirty new stained glass windows have
| been ordered for the st. Johns Catholic
church at Bangor. They will be made at a
hrst class European mandatory and WILDE
executed in the highest style of art. Five Of
| the windows will cost $4C0 each and the re-
naming Is 1928 each.
| A big trade IS now being done in blueber-
| ries along the line of the n. b. Railway. Be-
| tween WelSford and McAdam Junction there
are 1--WE firms engaged in shipping blueber-
| RES TO the United States. A team goes daily
to the Eall Mountains, and two teams to
Cloneness, to carry the berries from the
| ''helds" to the place of shipment. Thirty
| hye cents pail are paid to pickers on the
plains Tor berries. Last year some $701 were
| paid to the pickers at Cloneness. The ship
ments this year will be much larger than last,
as the American firms" are more vigorously
pushing trade.
| A newspaper despatch says D. Brown Sta
| pies, son OF L. w. Staples. formerly of Old
| town, now wealthy lumberman of Still
| water, Mimi, was the owner of colt that
was dlstanced in recent race at Freeport,
| Ill. The evening after the race, young Staples
met Mr.. Charles A. Winship of Minneapolis,
Mimi, another horse owner, drew revolver
| and shot him, the ball entering his body i'm
She region OF the heart, and it was thought
he could not live. Staples refused to give
| any reason for the deed, and prominent horse
men present are unable to account for his
act.
| Mr.. Charles Waldron was drowned from a
| pilot boat In New York harbor on Friday of
last week. He was recently a resident of
| Hampden. He was 80 years of age Mr.,
| Waidron mas been studying the past three
! years for the profession of plotting and was
about to receive his license as pilot.
The Bangor Commercial states that orders
| were received at the Second Regiment head
quarters IN Bangor, Monday, discharging
Lieut.. Frank II. Greedy, Quartermaster of the
regiment, and Lieut.. j. +. Harris of Co. b.,
Jersey Light Infantry, Oldtown. These Off
| GERS resigned some time ago. As yet Col.
| Brett of the Second has appointed no Quar-
| termaster to succeed Lieut.. Greeley.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
| John Foster, the man who ran off with j.
| w. Blalr's stable team, was arrested in Lew
| lston Saturday and brought to Richmond.
Monday morning he was brought before JUS
tlce Spauldlng, who bound him over for trial
at the December term of court. In default
OF bail he was committed to Wiscasset Jail to
| await trial.
George ii. Winslow, who has. for two or
three seasons, been selling liquors from a
boat on the Kennebec river. was arrested
Monday afternoon. He has caused consid-
cradle trouble for the ice companies and
Others. by selling to the workmen. Special
attention was called to the matter by his SELL
ing liquor on the river opposite the camp
grounds to parties attending the meetings
during the recent sessions, and steps were
taken which resulted in his arrest. He for
| merly kept saloon in Richmond but left to
avoid arrest for rumselling.
YORK COUNTY.
Thursday the hair of Miss Ella Moody, an
employee in Kempton's clothing factory at
Springvale caught in the machinery in some
unaccountable way. and before she could free
herself, the hair and skin were completely
torn from one side of her head. She is now
| comfortable